MMS 2017

Session Description:
Join this session for The Best of Windows Server 2016 - The New Foundation of your Datacenter. You'll get an overview of the new, exciting improvements that are in Windows Server 2016 and how they'll improve your day-to-day job. In this presentation Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations including: Hyper-V 2016 features, Nano Server, Storage Spaces Direct, Storage Replica, Windows Server Containers, and more!

What you will learn:

• Get an overview about the new amazing features in Windows Server 2016

• New storage features like Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica

• New Hyper-V features such as Shielded VMs

• Learn about Nano Server and basics about containers

• The new editions, servicing model and licensing

Session Description:
Nano Server is the future of Windows Server. With Nano Server Microsoft created the foundation for Windows Server for the future. In this session you will get an overview about Nano Server and see some great live demos of how you can deploy, manage and operate Nano Server as well as creating applications for it. Get a better understanding of Nano Server and see how you deploy, manage and operate it.

What you will learn:

• The basics and reasons for Windows Server

• How to deploy Nano Server

• How to manage and operate Nano Server

• Learn some best practices and lessons learned from the field

Session Description:
Software Defined Storage is the future, and the future is here. In this session, you learn how to design, deploy and troubleshoot Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) in Windows Server 2016. You learn the core fundamentals for Software Defined Storage, such as, CPU, Memory, Disks and Networking. 

What you will learn:

• How to build 2 and 4+s node clusters
• Expanding clusters
• Perform In-depth performance analysis using diskspd.exe and VMFleet
• Troubleshoot and Repair